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Mini 4 owners post your battery life here
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Definitely just you.
As the others said, give it several charge cycles. The % indicator isn't terribly accurate under the best of circumstances and fresh out of the box it needs some time to calibrate.
Seriously dude, RELAX! For the 100th time, your battery appears normal, especially given that this is the first discharge. What are you so worried about? Just enjoy your new iPad.
http://www.apple.com/ipad-mini-4/specs/
Your iPad is superior to most, hint, check the battery specs! Drama over
For the OP (or anyone else who's interested), I ran across a very interesting app in a thread on the iPP several weeks ago. It gives some interesting battery information, including charge rate (if charging), actual charge vs. reported charge, actual capacity vs. nominal capacity, and number of charge cycles. It is a paid app but I thought it was worth buying. I have no connection at all to the developer.
Wow drama much?
Battery life that keeps up with yours.
The A8 chip isn’t just powerful, it’s also power efficient. With up to 10 hours of battery life, it can handle work, play, and everything in between.* And thanks to advancements in iOS 9, iPad mini 4 can make that power last even longer.
UP TO 10 hours is what Apple quotes for iPads (ROUGHLY depends on standby time as 10 hours is the usage time)
You used 57% (43% left) to get exactly 5.5 hours of usage. Do some simple algebra/ratios to calculate using 100% and you get 9.7 hours (57 over 5.5 equals 100 over x; solve for x). 9.7 hours is almost IDENTICAL to what Apple quotes.
Battery life that keeps up with yours.
The A8 chip isn’t just powerful, it’s also power efficient. With up to 10 hours of battery life, it can handle work, play, and everything in between.* And thanks to advancements in iOS 9, iPad mini 4 can make that power last even longer.
UP TO 10 hours is what Apple quotes for iPads (ROUGHLY depends on standby time as 10 hours is the usage time)
You used 57% (43% left) to get exactly 5.5 hours of usage. Do some simple algebra/ratios to calculate using 100% and you get 9.7 hours (57 over 5.5 equals 100 over x; solve for x). 9.7 hours is almost IDENTICAL to what Apple quotes.
I'm actually curious now. How's it looking today? Did you run it all the way down? How many hours did you get?
EVERYONE POST YOUR BATTERY LIFE BECAUSE MINE SUCKS AND I CAN'T POSSIBLY JUST ASK YOUR OPINION OF MY BATTERY LIFE AND EVEN IF I DO AND YOU SAY IT'S OK I'M STILL GOING TO FREAK OUT. SO EVERYONE JUST POST YOUR BATTERY LIFE EVEN IF IT DOESN'T CHANGE MINE. MKAY?
Is it? (That's a question, not picking an argument.) I had (still have, actually) a 2 as well as the 4 and I'd say they are about the same, though I've never tested it. My Air 2 gets noticeably worse battery life than the Air I had before.
How's it doing?
I finally charge cycled it once all the way to zero. It actually finally charged while it was plugged in my computer. First day it didn't charge at all but it drained while plugged to the pc. Weird.
Some USB ports are wonky, and IIRC on some computers some of the USB ports either don't supply any charging voltage or supply less current. Having said that, I know from experience that even the lowly iPhone charger will charge the retina Minis (including the 4), though not terribly quickly.
Some PC USB ports can't provide enough power to charge a tablet if it's using a lot of power itself, and like I said, when fresh out the box, the device may be doing a lot of setup stuff in the background and thus draining power quickly. Bottom line: use the charger.
